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On The Daring: Genesis Of The Flux
rhome anderson
Dec 4, 2020
Rhome Anderson
In the mid-1990s an arts renaissance took place in the U Street corridor of Washington, D.C., rising from the debris of decades of post-riot neglect after Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1968 assassination.
The young artists of this era—musicians, poets, singers, rappers, DJs, dancers—walked in the footsteps of Black Broadway's early 20th century legends. This new incarnation worked in the idioms of hip-hop, jazz, R&B, funk, soul, rock, reggae, drum-n-bass, house, and spoken word. And often, those genre lines melted into each other and disappeared as the scene was driven by collaboration as well as healthy one-upmanship.Genesis Of The Flux — The Daring Media Blog
In the mid-1990s, an arts renaissance took place in the U Street corridor of Washington, D.C. It rose from the debris of decades of post-riot neglect after Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination in 1968. Miscellaneous Flux was born in that era.
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